ИСТИНА

Recently, due to the rapid progress in information and communication technology and the increasing popularity of virtual tourism, the influx of Russian borrowings into Persian, including borrowed place names and microtoponyms, has noticeably increased. More and more travelogues, articles and notes dedicated to numerous historical monuments of various Russian cities are being published by the top Iranian news agencies and on the major touristic sites. This growing bulk of new toponymic data must be described and systematized. The aim of the present paper based on the actual mass material is to describe the peculiarities of the graphic, phonological and morphological – inflectional and derivational – integration of Russian loanwords into Persian.